Sentences with phrase «blatter last»
Blatter last month was banned football for eight years for misconduct in office and the shadow of a scandal - scarred year hung over an event with UEFA president Michel Platini also absent through suspension as well as various other long - serving FIFA grandees either on bail or wanted in the United States.
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Last week, Sepp Blatter, who has served as FIFA's president for nearly two decades, announced that he would be stepping down as reports emerged that he too was being investigated by the FBI...
After winning the presidential election last week, Blatter was expected to serve as president for another four years, but has decided to step down presumably because of the negative reaction to his re-election.
Coming in with the third - best odds is legendary player Luis Figo, who ran against Blatter in the last election before dropping out, saying that the process was not actually democratic.
Last year, amongst a flurry of articles, reports and exclusives accusing and alleging corruption at the heart of FIFA, Sepp Blatter proclaimed that the storm against the organisation and particularly its choice to select Qatar as the host for the 2022 World Cup was down to racism and discrimination.
FIFA President Sepp Blatter will surely face even more criticism after a poor attempt at condemning the racist attack by Chelsea fans on a man at the Paris Metro station last week.
It seems to grow harder than ever to understand the anomalies of football for the moment I am not talking about that sink of iniquity which is FIFA, where at long last the ineffable Sepp Blatter, forever promising to solve the problem of which he is such a central part, has at long last agreed to release the Swiss court papers which detail how two senior FIFA executives — plainly Joao Havelange himself and Ricardo Texeira — received a huge pay off from the now defunct ISLCompany in exchange for valuable rights.
Blatter was suspended for 90 days by FIFA on October 8 and then banned from the game for eight years last month for ethics violations over a # 1.35 m payment FIFA made to Michel Platini with Blatter's approval in 2011.